Unit Profile Correction added on 06-05-20
Due to COVID-19, final exams for 2020 Term 1 have been cancelled. The final exam in this unit will be replaced by an online open-book non-invigilated summative assessment of the same weighting to be undertaken in the same duration but with an extra 30 minutes allocated for scanning and uploading of answers into Moodle. A Zoom session will be in operation at the same time for students to use for enquiries during the assessment. This has been approved by the Undergraduate Engineering Committee. Further details will be available in class and in Moodle. The learning outcomes assessed are unchanged.
Overview
This unit introduces you to key concepts and principles required to analyse problems involving heat exchange and energy conversion. You will analyse and design heat exchangers and analyse the performance of compressors, internal combustion engines, gas turbines and jet propulsion. You will analyse combustion processes and estimate pollutant emissions, and analyse and design nozzles to promote safe and efficient combustion. You will prepare professional documents that demonstrate critical evaluation of results. You will be required to show your ability to work productively to solve problems, and document and communicate your work clearly in a professional manner. On-campus students will be required to attend laboratory sessions to promote development of unit learning outcomes. Mixed Mode (online) students will be required to attend a residential school to attend laboratory sessions and an in-class test to promote development of unit learning outcomes.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prereq: ENEM13014 Thermodynamics or ENEM12003 Thermodynamics
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator reflections
Student performance in the tests was higher than expected but probably due to too much test guidance given as to the questions.
A wider range of questions will be used in 2020.
Feedback from Student feedback
Feedback on labs was delayed.
UC was hampered by illness and the loss of a partner. UC will try to develop an alternative marking process that is less reliant on one person completing the marking.
Feedback from Student feedback
Tutorial answers poorly presented (poor handwriting).
Model answers will be rewritten for 2020.
Feedback from Student feedback and UC reflections
Distance students have potential access to more resources for second test since they do it at home and not on a campus.
UC will consider alternative means of doing second hand-written test - it may become an online quiz instead of a handwritten test.
- Analyse and explain the principles of heat transfer and conversion between heat energy and mechanical power
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of heat exchangers and internal combustion engines
- Analyse and explain combustion calculations and processes
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of gas turbines with respect to jet propulsion
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of nozzles with respect to jet propulsion
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of compressors.
This unit in the Mechanical Engineering course helps students meet the Engineers Australia's stage one competencies.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - In-class Test(s) - 15% | ||||||
| 2 - Laboratory/Practical - 15% | ||||||
| 3 - Online Test - 15% | ||||||
| 4 - Examination - 55% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - In-class Test(s) - 15% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Laboratory/Practical - 15% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Online Test - 15% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Examination - 55% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists
Edition: 5th (1993)
Authors: Eastop, T.D. and McConkey, A.
Pearson, Prentice Hall
Harlow Harlow , Essex , UK
ISBN: 9780582091931
Binding: Paperback
Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of Fluids (SI Units)
Edition: 5th (1995)
Authors: Rogers, G.F.C. & Mayhew, Y.R.
Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631197034
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
Paper copies can be purchased from the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Access to a scanner.
- Video and audio equipment to join online tutorials
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.narayanan@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Heat Transfer - Conduction, convection, radiation, Fourier's law of conduction, Newton's law of cooling, composite walls and the electrical analogy, heat flow through a cylinder and sphere
Chapter
Chapter 16 - Pages 561-576
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 1 & 2: 16.1, 16.5, 16.6, 16.8, 16.16, 16.18, 16.20, 16.21, 16.22, 16.30, 16.37, 16.38, 16.44, 16.46
Module/Topic
Heat Transfer - Forced convection, natural convection, heat exchangers, heat exchanger effectiveness, extended surfaces, black body radiation, grey body, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Lambert's law and the geometric factor, radiant interchange between grey bodies, heat transfer coefficient for radiation
Chapter
Chapter 16 - Pages 599-650
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 1 & 2: 16.1, 16.5, 16.6, 16.8, 16.16, 16.18, 16.20, 16.21, 16.22, 16.30, 16.37, 16.38, 16.44, 16.46
Module/Topic
Internal Combustion Engines - Four-stroke cycle, two-stroke cycle, other types of engines, criteria of performance, engine output and efficiency, performance characteristics
Chapter
Chapter 13 - Pages 419-442
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 3 & 4: 13.1, 13.2, 13.6, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11,13.13
Module/Topic
Internal Combustion Engines - Factors influencing performance, real cycles and the air standard cycle, properties of fuels for IC engines, fuel systems, measurement of air and fuel flow rates, supercharging, engine emissions
Chapter
Chapter 13 - Pages 442-475
Events and Submissions/Topic
Residential school for Mixed Mode students
Tutorial Problems for weeks 3 & 4: 13.1, 13.2, 13.6, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11,13.13
In-Class Test Due: Week 4 Wednesday (1 Apr 2020) 10:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Combustion - Basic chemistry, fuels, combustion equations, stoichiometric air-fuel ratio
Chapter
Chapter 7 - Pages 176-183
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 5-7: 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.9, 7.12
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Combustion - Exhaust and flue gas analysis, practical analysis of combustion products
Chapter
Chapter 7 - Pages 183-200
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 5-7: 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.9, 7.12
Module/Topic
Combustion - Enthalpy of formation, calorific value of fuels, power plant thermal efficiency, practical determination of calorific values, air and fuel-vapour mixtures
Chapter
Chapter 7 - Pages 219-230
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 5-7: 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.9, 7.12
Module/Topic
Gas Turbines - Practical gas turbine cycle, modifications to the basic cycle, combustion,
Chapter
Chapter 9 - Pages 260-283
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.5
Module/Topic
Nozzles and Jet Propulsion - Nozzle shape, critical pressure ratio, maximum mass flow
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 9-11: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9
Online Test Due: Week 9 Wednesday (13 May 2020) 11:20 am AEST
Module/Topic
Nozzles and Jet Propulsion - Nozzles off the design pressure ratio, nozzle efficiency
Chapter
Chapter 10 - Pages 298-304
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 9-11: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9
Laboratories and Video Presentation Due: Week 10 Monday (18 May 2020) 9:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Nozzles and Jet Propulsion - Stagnation conditions, jet propulsion, turbojet, turboprop,
Chapter
Chapter 10 - Pages 309-325
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems for weeks 9-11: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9
Module/Topic
Compressors - Positive displacement machines, reciprocating compressors, reciprocating compressors including clearance, multistage compression, steady-flow analysis, rotary machines, vacuum pumps, air motors,
Chapter
Chapter 12 - Pages 381-415
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial Problems: 12.3, 12.5, 12.9
Module/Topic
Review
Chapter
All chapters previously stated
Events and Submissions/Topic
Revise all tutorial problems and worked examples from the textbook.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 In-class Test(s)
Answer questions in a two-hour test format relating to the topics from weeks 1-3. On-campus students will sit the test in-person during the normal timetabled class. Mixed-mode students will sit the test together with the Rockhampton students during the residential school. All students need to ensure that they are available on the day and at the allocated time. No extensions are possible.
Week 4 Wednesday (1 Apr 2020) 10:00 am AEST
Week 6 Monday (20 Apr 2020)
Global feedback and individual marks will be added to Moodle once marking has been completed
You will be graded on the following criteria:
- correct answers to appropriate levels of significant figures as well as correct units
- correct selection and application of theoretical concepts to the specific question situation
- accuracy and presentation quality of diagrams and schematics used to solve the questions
- Analyse and explain the principles of heat transfer and conversion between heat energy and mechanical power
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of heat exchangers and internal combustion engines
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
2 Laboratory/Practical
Each student is required to complete the following:
- Data collection for heat exchangers (group work) (Pass/Fail)
- Data collection for diesel engine (group work) (Pass/Fail)
- Data collection for petrol engine (group work) (Pass/Fail)
- Data processing and spreadsheet presentation of results for heat exchangers (individual work) (3%)
- Data processing and spreadsheet presentation of results for diesel engine (individual work) (3%)
- Data processing and spreadsheet presentation of results for petrol engine (individual work) (3%)
- Prepare a 10-minute video presentation which highlights the results of your lab work (individual work) (6%)
The residential school for Mixed Mode students will be held in Rockhampton, 1-3 April 2020.
A schedule for on-campus and Mixed Mode students will be supplied separately in Moodle.
The laboratory activities and video presentation are compulsory, non-attendance and/or non-submission will be marked as zero and will result in a Fail for the entire unit.
Week 10 Monday (18 May 2020) 9:00 am AEST
To be negotiated with lab technicians and unit coordinator. Each campus is operating independently.
Week 12 Monday (1 June 2020)
Feedback and guidance provided during the lab sessions, after marking of each spreadsheet and after marking of the video presentation.
The data collection components are Pass/Fail. Students are expected to participate in the lab activity in order to enhance their understanding of the concepts demonstrated by each lab activity. Non-attendance and/or non-participation will result in a fail grade for the labs and for the overall unit.
The spreadsheets will be graded on the following criteria:
- Correct presentation of raw data
- Correct processing of raw data
- Correct presentation of results in table format
- Correct presentation of results in graphical format
The video presentation will be graded on the following criteria:
- Accuracy and clarity of presentation slides
- Effectiveness of communication of laboratory results
- Duration of presentation
- Analyse and explain the principles of heat transfer and conversion between heat energy and mechanical power
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of heat exchangers and internal combustion engines
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
3 Online Test
Answer questions in a two-hour test format relating to the topics from weeks 4-7. On-campus and mixed-mode students will sit the test on the same day and time and submit a scanned or photographed copy of their answers into Moodle within 20 minutes of the end of the test. All students need to ensure that they are available on the day and at the allocated time. No extensions are possible.
Week 9 Wednesday (13 May 2020) 11:20 am AEST
Week 11 Monday (25 May 2020)
Global feedback and individual marks will be added to Moodle once marking has been completed
You will be graded on the following criteria:
- correct answers to appropriate levels of significant figures as well as correct units
- correct selection and application of theoretical concepts to the specific question situation
- accuracy and quality of presentation of diagrams and schematics used to solve the questions
- Analyse and explain combustion calculations and processes
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of gas turbines with respect to jet propulsion
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
